vicinae-takoba

LOW
maintainer kurojs 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The npx command runs a build tool ('vici') from the project's own source code, not a remote package; the source is a GitHub release tarball, and the output is installed as data for a local application.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The npx command runs a build tool ('vici') from the project's own source code, not a remote package; the source is a GitHub release tarball, and the output is installed as data for a local application.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
Medium npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell. Severity downgraded: Node.js consumer context.

  • PKGBUILD:22 npx vici build -o dist

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: kuro <kuro@kuro.moe>
2# Contributor: kuro <kuro@kuro.moe>
3
4pkgname=vicinae-takoba
5pkgver=0.2.3
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="Japanese dictionary, translator, TTS, and Anki integration for launchers — search Jotoba, translate on the fly, add cards to Anki"
8arch=('any')
9url="https://github.com/kurojs/Takoba"
10license=('MIT')
11depends=('vicinae-bin' 'nodejs' 'npm')
12makedepends=('git' 'npm')
13source=("Takoba-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/kurojs/Takoba/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
14sha256sums=('SKIP')
15install=takoba.install
16
17build() {
18 cd "$srcdir/Takoba-$pkgver"
19 npm install
20 node scripts/copy-shim.js vicinae
21 node scripts/build-worker.js
22 npx vici build -o dist
23 node scripts/copy-dict.js dist
24}
25
26package() {
27 cd "$srcdir/Takoba-$pkgver"
28 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba"
29 install -Dm644 dist/takoba.js "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/takoba.js"
30 install -Dm644 package.json "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/package.json"
31 install -Dm644 assets/icon.svg "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/icon.svg"
32 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/assets"
33 install -Dm644 assets/icon.svg "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/assets/icon.svg"
34 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/dict"
35 install -m644 dist/dict/*.dat.gz "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/dict/"
36 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/scripts"
37 install -Dm644 dist/furigana-worker.cjs "$pkgdir/usr/share/vicinae-takoba/scripts/furigana-worker.cjs"
38}
39

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Low 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Low 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Low 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Low 2
2026-09-13 05:13:46 Medium 1
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Low 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Low 2
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Low 2
2026-09-10 00:22:44 Low 2
2026-09-09 00:04:09 Low 2
2026-09-08 00:18:08 Low 2
2026-09-07 00:30:15 Low 2
2026-09-06 00:17:06 Low 2
2026-09-05 00:16:27 Low 2
2026-09-04 00:03:13 Low 2
2026-09-03 00:15:47 Low 2
2026-09-02 00:02:31 Low 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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2026-08-30 00:04:14 Low 2

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